{"id":7530,"date":"2025-10-17T00:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7530\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:11:06","slug":"plano-named-best-city-for-individuals-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7530\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano Named Best City for Individuals with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"195\" data-end=\"436\">PLANO \u2014 Plano has been recognized as the best city in Texas for people with disabilities and ranked 19th nationwide, according to a new study by WalletHub.com.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"632\">The study analyzed 182 of the largest U.S. cities, evaluating them on multiple factors.\u00a0 Things like safety, cost of living, healthcare access, employment opportunities, and quality of life.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"898\">Plano earned first place in the economy category, highlighted for having the lowest percentage of residents with disabilities living in poverty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-98745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sharon-waldron-VqcL2k5H8Ac-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\"  \/>(Sharon Waldron\/Unsplash)<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"898\">The city also ranked fifth in the nation for its employment rate among individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"900\" data-end=\"1054\">The report aims to identify cities that provide strong economic support, accessibility, and inclusive opportunities for residents with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1056\" data-end=\"1144\">Full rankings and methodology are available on <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-start=\"1103\" data-end=\"1141\">WalletHub.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLANO \u2014 Plano has been recognized as the best city in Texas for people with disabilities and ranked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-7530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}